The VCA Amstetten did not make the hoped-for promotion to the quarter-finals of the men’s Challenge Cup on Wednesday evening. The volleyball players from Lower Austria had to bow down to the guests from Lausanne with a score of 0:3 (-16,-25,-23) and probably missed their chances with two unused set balls in the second round. Since the first leg was lost 2:3, the Swiss are ahead with an overall score of 6:2.
“I have to pay the team a huge compliment. We played great games and lost twice today to two points, that’s a pity,” VCA sports director Michael Henschke summed up the elimination in an ORF interview. “With a bit more luck or more experience, then we’ll solve the two sets and then would have seen how it went on. But in principle I’m absolutely satisfied, you first have to do three rounds in the European Cup as an Austrian team.” In any case, the young team have learned a lot.
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